It's Spring Break! My wife and I are lucky to be assigned a duty. Guess what? Babysitting again, of course:)
Ok, we are more than happy to do it. We want to make this one week of time meaningful and beneficial.
What is the goal? How about "Filling What's Missing"?
Those children usually live in a small-town environment with a lots of love and helps from parents, babysitters and teachers, etc. I was wondering if we should let them gain two useful expenses during that week: "Independent situations" and a "Big city environment".
Here were what we did ( Note: these experiments should be conducted under adults' supervision):
1) Using a puzzle game board to let the children understand that "life is a puzzle picture", and sometimes we need to find out what our lives have been missing.
When we play with kids, we should seize an opportunity to teach a philosophy that often kids would not comprehend by words but certainly can feel by their personal experiences.
2) Helping self, helping others, and helping each other are not only skills, but they are good habits to have.